[mcclim-devel] Context menu

[Timothy Moore]

On May 15, 2005, at 12:19 PM, Duncan Rose wrote:

>
> I think I'm missing something to do with defining commands, and 
> right-click context menus.
>
> I have process objects that are presented and a number of commands 
> defined for this type. I assumed (presumably wrongly :-) that these 
> commands would be displayed automatically when the presentation is 
> right-clicked over.
>
You need to define a presentation translator for something to appear in 
the context menu. You do that by:
* Specifying a gesture in the define-glimpse-command form. You've 
specifically said nil there;
* Using define-presentation-to-command-translator with a non-nil menu 
argument.

Tim

> An example command definition follows:
>
> (define-glimpse-command (com-kill-process :name t :menu nil)
>   ((obj 'ccl::process    ; need to generalize this...
> 	:prompt "process"
> 	:gesture nil))
>   (clim-sys:destroy-process obj)
>   (com-show-processes))
>
> [aside; I suspect it could be useful to define a PROCESS type in 
> CLIM-SYS]
>
> Do commands need to have a specific ':menu' entry to appear?
>
> -Duncan
>
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